Miss Universe 2010 supports gay marriage

The winner of Miss Universe 2010 has come out in support of gay marriage.

Mexican beauty queen Ximena Navarrete said she had lots of gay friends and there was "no reason we should want to set them aside".

Last year, Miss California Carrie Prejean lost the Miss USA pageant and her crown after announcing she disagreed with gay marriage.

Although she became a darling of the Christian right, her career was further damaged by revelations she had starred in "solo sex tapes".

Ms Navarrete, 22, won the Miss Universe crown last month and was asked for her views on gay marriage by Mexican radio station W Radio.

According to a translation by Blabbeando, she said: "Look, I believe that every person in this world has the right to profess the beliefs they have and I am in agreement. We have to respect what each human being decides to do with their lives, you know?

"We have to learn to be respectful because [gay people] are people who are the same as us. There is no difference."

She added: "The truth is that I am absolutely against discrimination and, well, what can I say. I have many friends who are homosexual and I adore them. And they are equal folk: There is no reason we should want to set them aside, there is no reason why we shouldn't let them enjoy what they want to enjoy with their partner."
Ms Navarrete is the second Mexican to win the title of Miss Universe and has pledged to spend her year in office tackling issues such as HIV and breast cancer.

Old Photos of Bengaḷūru rare collection

Bengaluru (Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು Bengaḷūru [ˈbeŋɡəɭuːru]( listen)) , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise.^[5] Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous cityand fifth-most populous urban agglomeration. As of 2009, Bangalore was inducted in the list of Global cities and ranked as a "Beta World City" alongside Geneva, Copenhagen, Boston, Cairo, Riyadh, Berlin, to name a few, in the studies performed by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network in 2008.
Though historical references to the city predate 900 AD, a modern written history of continuous settlement exists only from 1537, when Kempe Gowda I, a vassal of the imperial Vijayanagara Empire built a mud-brick fort at the site and established it as a province of the empire. During the British Raj, it became a centre of colonial rule in South India. The establishment of the Bangalore Cantonment brought in large numbers of migrants from other parts of the country.

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Race Course

St. Joseph's College

After 30 years

Aishwarya Rai the Miss World stunning beauty queen is considered to be one of the beautiful actresses in the movie indhas done movies in languages like Hindi, Tamil, English and Bengali. In the year 1994, she won the Miss Wo title .

 Madhuri Dixit - ‘Madhubala of the nineties’ and ‘ Maryln Monroe of Bollywood’, is one of the most famous and successful Bollywood actresses till date. She is one of those actors who have struggled in their life to reach the no 1 slot in the Indian film industry

Akshay Kumar with his clean cut good looks and a history in martial arts has smoothly made a transition from action hero to a romantic hero and then into comedy,

Remeber this forgetten hero...

Like many other freedom fighters, Sukhdev Thapar was also a famous Indian revolutionary who sacrificed his life for the cause of India’s independence. He was born on May 15, 1907 in Naughara in Ludhiana. Since childhood, he had witnessed the brutal behavior of British authorities on Indians and grew up with a firm decision and an earnest desire to set India free from British dominion.

Sukhdev was a member of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and took active part in various revolutionary activities. He along with other revolutionaries founded the Naujawan Bharat Sabha with the aim to aware and gear up Indian youth for the freedom struggle showing them an imaginary picture of India’s future.

As a active participant of Lahore Conspiracy Case in 1928 and Prison Hunger Strike in 1929, Sukhdev shook the established foundation of British Government. On 1929, he along with his accomplice Bhagat Singh and Shivram Rajguru was arrested for assassinating Deputy Superitendent Saunder in 1928, thus avenging the death of Lalaji. The three brave revolutionaries were sentenced to death, as per the verdict, on March 23, 1931 and their bodies were secretly cremated on the banks of River Sutlej.

Salute to those souls who bring freedom to us...

That is 1927,December 18. In front of gorakpur central jail a lady is waiting for permission to visit the jail to see his son who was sentenced to death, A guy whose legs and hands are tied from chains enters and this is last chance to him to speck with mother in his life whose eyes are fill up by tears calls 'AMMA' after seeing the son face his mother tells, Why u r Crying my Child..? I thought my son is real hero listening your name these British government flattuers, but I never thought that my son is afraid to death, every one will be die one day but son like u only find achievement in their death.

This is lines told by one of famous Indian freedom fighter Ramprasad bismilas’s mother. Salute to both mother and his great son.

Happy Independence Day Friends

Jai Hind.

History of Friendship Day

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

There is not much literature on Friendship Day history as we celebrate today. However, there are numerous folktales and several instance in mythological legends that shows that friends and friendship have been valued since the beginning of civilized world. As an intrinsically social creature, men love to make friends to further this process of socialization.

History of Friendship Day in US
Considering the valuable role friends play in our life it was deemed to fit to have a day dedicated to friends and friendship. The United States Congress, in 1935, proclaimed first Sunday of August as the National Friendship Day. Since then, celebration of National Friendship Day became an annual event. The noble idea of honoring the beautiful relationship of friendship caught on with the people and soon Friendship Day became a hugely popular festival.

Following the popularity and success of Friendship Day in US, several other countries adopted the tradition of dedicating a day to friends. Today, Friendship Day is enthusiastically celebrated by several countries across the world including India.

In 1997, the United Nations named Winnie - the Pooh as the world's Ambassador of Friendship.

Importance of Friendship in Mahabharata
In the famous Hindu epic ‘Mahabharata’, Lord Krishna demonstrates the many colors of friendship - affection, romance, brotherhood, protection, guidance, intimacy and even teasing. Friendship is all about these and much more

What is a Broad-Based Education?

Some animals in a forest decided to start a school. The students included a bird, a squirrel, a fish, a dog, a rabbit and a mentally retarded eel. A board was formed to determine the curriculum and it was decided that flying, tree climbing, swimming, and burrowing would give a broad-based education. All animals were required to take all subjects.

The bird was excellent at flying and was getting A’s but when it came to burrowing, it kept breaking its beak and wings and started failing. Pretty soon, it started making C’s in flying and, of course, in tree climbing and swimming it was getting F’s. The squirrel was great at tree climbing, but was failing in swimming. The fish was the best swimmer but couldn’t get out of the water and thus got F’s in everything else. They didn’t join the school, stopped paying taxes, and kept fighting with the administration to include barking as part of the curriculum.

The rabbit got A’s in burrowing but tree climbing was a real problem. It kept failing and landing on its head. Suffered brain damage, and soon couldn’t even burrow properly and got C’s in that too.

The mentally retarded eel, who did everything half as well, became the valedictorian of the class. The broad-based education.

A true broad-based education prepares students for life, without losing their areas of specialization and competence.

What Does the ‘95′ Stand For?

Old joke referring to the Windows 95 operating system.

* The required number of megabytes of RAM to run at useable speed.
* The percentage that will be complete on the shipping date.
* The number of floppies it will ship in.

* The percentage of people who will have to upgrade their hardware.
* The number of megabytes of hard disk space required.
* The number of pages in the *EASY-INSTALL* version of the manual.
* The percentage of existing windoze programs that won’t run in the new OS.
* The number of minutes to install.
* The number of calls to tech support before you can get it to run.
* The number of people who will actually PAY for the upgrade.
* The number of MHz required for the OS to run.
* The year it was due to ship.
* The number of seconds before it crashes.
* Bill Gates’ age when it ships.
* Microsoft never told you what century!!
* The number of ships for shipping it.
* The millions of women who will be alone while their partners have opened the ‘Windows’.
* The number of minutes to ‘kill’ the hard drive.
* The number of microsoft support staff that “WON’T” need extreme counselling…
* The percentage turnover rate for staff.
* The number of days until Gates tries to sell you a newer OS.
* The 95 stands for average CPH : Crash Per Hour.

'Power-packed' jeans: Wear them and fear not pickpockets

Imagine a pickpocket trying to steal your wallet but getting a 220-volt jolt! Wearing a special pair of jeans - designed by a Varanasi school dropout using basic scientific principles - might just help avoid a hole in your pocket.

The jeans have been designed by Shyam Chaurasia, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi district. That's not all, with slight modifications, according to him, you can make all your garments "power-Packed".

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"You just need to fit a small battery-operated kit in the garment that you want to make power-packed," Chaurasia, 21, told IANS. Varanasi is around 300 km from Lucknow.

"While I designed the kit to counter pickpockets, the same can be used very conveniently in other clothes, primarily in women's T-Shirts and other garments. It could also give electric shocks to molesters," added Chaurasia, who left his studies after failing twice in his high school examinations.

And if you thought the battery-driven kit requires a good amount of investment, you are wrong. "It's just Rs.300 and its upgraded version can be developed just by spending around Rs.100 more," said Chaurasia.

The kit developed by Chaurasia comprises thin copper wires, which appear as normal stitches on the back pockets of the jeans, capacitors that collect and store electricity, electromagnetic switches, resistance and a 3-volt battery - all packed inside a plastic case of spectacles.

"Whenever you want to use the kit just attach the two thin wires of the jeans with the hand-held kit that stores the battery and other small electronic items and switch it on," Chaurasia said.

"Those who try to put their hands into the jeans will get an electric shock and remove their hands quickly in a reflex action," he added.

"Those wearing the jeans need not worry as they will not get any kind of electric shock while wearing the garment even when the switch is on," Chaurasia said.

"It's the rubber coating inside the pockets that make the jeans completely safe for the wearer," he added.

Explaining the working of the kit, Chaurasia said: "It works on the same principle as an inverter. It changes the DC (direct current) into AC (alternating current) which renders the shock of 220 volts."

"Electromagnetic switches, capacitors and the battery have been connected in such a way that these make the 3-volt current generated by the battery rise to 220 volts," he added.

Chaurasia's kit has become quite popular in Varanasi where people are visiting him to get a kit designed for their personal use.